Miller v. Preston’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2001 · most notably Natural Design, Inc. v. Rouse Co. (1984), Waller v. Waller (1946)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Robertson v. Parks · Willett v. Herrick · Owens v. Graetzel · Seitz v. Michel · Rent-A-Car Co. v. Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The effect of all that the plaintiff relates in his declaration may have been as disastrous as he says, but, if so, his wrongs, if any, are those of a stockholder, which can only be enforced through a receiver, or if he refuses to act, then by a stockholder for the benefit of all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.